GX 650 vs XC2KU050P
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX GX 650 and the AMD Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 XC2KU050P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GX 650 | XC2KU050P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 414,720 | 360,000 |
| LUTs as published | 207,360 ALMs | 225,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 612,000 LE | 491,000 SLC |
| DSP | 1,152 variable-precision DSP blocks | 1,872 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 49 Mb | 17.7 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 27 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 392 | 516 |
| Transceivers | 16 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 8 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 24 × GTY 32.75 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | Gen4 x8 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 1 | 2 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
The GX 650 has about 15% more logic capacity (415K vs 360K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the GX 650 is built from ALMs and the XC2KU050P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (207K vs 225K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC2KU050P has 1,872 DSP slices against 1,152 variable-precision DSP blocks on the GX 650.
Both have transceivers: 24 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the GX 650 and 24 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XC2KU050P.
The GX 650 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC2KU050P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GX 650 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XC2KU050P (Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2).